Beehive attachment.



S. BLAGG.

BEEHIVE ATTACHMENT.

12211101111011 FILED 3111.24, 1910.

964,744 Patented July 19,1910.

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ATTORNEYS STATES "mos;

SAMUEL BLAGG, OF ERIE, ILLINOIS.

BEEHIVE ATTACHMENT.

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Application filed. January 24, 1910. Serial No. 539,912.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL BLAGG, a citizen of the United States, and aresident of Erie, in the county of Whiteside and State of Illinois, haveinvented an Improved Beehive Attachment, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention is in the nature of a frame adapted to be clampeddetachably to a beehive and for use in removing filled supers, whichoperation may be effected with safety to the apiarist.

The construction and manner of applying and using the attachment are ashereinafter described, and illustrated in the accompanying drawing, inwhich Figure 1 is a perspective view of the detachable frameconstituting the main feature of my attachment. Fig. 2 is a perspectiveview showing the frame clamped upon a hive and also other parts whichare used therewith in the operation of removing a filled super, aportion of the hive being shown in section. Fig. 3 is a central verticaltransverse section of the hive with my attachment applied and a beeescape board arranged in place under the super frame.

The detachable frame is composed of two similar bars 1 which arearranged parallel, and two transverse rods 2, 2, which pass through thebars 1 and are provided with wing-nuts 3. Each of the bars 1 is providedat each end on the inside with a cleat 41- for forming a track orguideway and support whose function will be hereinafter described. Thisframe is applied to a hive by passing it down over the top of the sameand clamping it to the body of the hive by screwing up the nuts 3 aswill be understood by reference to Fig. 2. The hive may be provided witha cleat 5 on each side to serve as a rest or support for the bars 1.

A detachable rod 6 passes through the bars 1 at a point immediately overthe right-hand clamp rod 2, as shown. One end of the same is bent toprovide a thumb-piece or handle. This rod serves as a stop for the superframe 7 when the same is being pushed into place as will be presentlydescribed.

In removing a filled super, I proceed as follows. The frame composed ofbars 1 and clamping rods 2 having been applied to the hive and securedas shown in Fig. 2, I lay a narrow board 8 on the guideways 4 at theright-hand end of the hive Where the detachable rod 6 is arranged andshove it along on the guideways and beneath the rod 6 and thus insertits inner edge under the super frame 7 which has been raisedsufficiently for the purpose. I then lay a bee escape board 9 on theguideways 4 at the other end of the frame, as shown in Fig. 2, andraising the adjacent end of the super frame 7 the escape board is pushedunder it, until the front end of the board is flush with the adjacentend of the hive. In such case the small bee passage 10 in theescape-board will be in the center of the hive, above the broodchamber-as indicated in Fig. 3. (The bee escape board is shown partlyinserted in Fig. 2). Let the board remain in this position during thefollowing night, and the bees will leave the super and descend into thebrood-chamber. In the morning take oil the filled super and replace itby an empty one, which is done by sliding the same on the track providedby the cleats 4. In pushing the empty super into place on the body ofthe hive, the rod 6 serves as a stop, arresting it at the right point.The entire attachment may then be removed from the hive and applied toanother having a filled super which it is desired to remove.

It will be understood that the narrow board 8 is used merely to preventescape of bees at the end of the hive where it is used, which escapewould otherwise occur when the bee escape board is being inserted, sincethe super is then raised bodily.

What I claim is 1. An attachment for beehives, comprising a detachableframe composed of parallel bars and transverse clamp rods, the said barshaving guideways at each end, as shown and described.

2. An improved beehive attachment, comprising parallel bars having endguideways, and means for securing them detachably on opposite sides of ahive, substantially as'described.

3. The improved beehive attachment, comprising a frame consisting ofparallel bars, transverse clamping rods, the bars being provided withend guideways, and a stop board adapted in length for support on theguideways of the said bars, substantially as described.

4. The combination with e beehive, of the ed With the frame,substantially as deattachment fomprising cFunnel bars arlild scribed.transverse c amping re s connecting t e same, the space between the barsand rods SAMUEL BLAGG' 5 being suflicient to receive the body of theWitnesses:

hive which may then be clamped. as de- GEO. H. FADDEN, scribed, and astop rod detaehably connect- CHARLES W. VOGT.

